Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 592 · 40 questions

Artist's tip (White up, black down): Tint = colour + white (lighter): pink, sky blue, light green, lilac, pale yellow. Shade = colour + black (darker): maroon, navy blue, dark green, bottle green, dark purple. Tone = colour + grey. Mixing a tint, start with white and add colour a little at a time; a row from white to black is a value scale.

1. 1.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) dark purple
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) value scale
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) light blue
9. 9.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) light blue
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) sky blue
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
17. 17.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) light blue
21. 21.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) dark red
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) pink
24. 24.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
27. 27.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) pink (d) dark red
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) light green (d) dark red
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) light green (d) maroon
40. 40.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green

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